Politics & Government News

5:43 AM on Saturday, June 6

Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died

3:10 AM on Saturday, June 6

Bahrain’s government says Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones toward it and Kuwait

2:34 AM on Saturday, June 6

Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city

12:25 AM on Saturday, June 6

Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls this weekend for the third time in 18 months

11:36 PM on Friday, June 5

Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain will bring him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice

11:05 PM on Friday, June 5

Joe Biden isn't on the ballot this fall, but three of his administration members are running for governor

11:03 PM on Friday, June 5

Armenia's parliamentary elections Sunday will focus on its geopolitical future as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU and the U.S. That is despite Armenia's longstanding relations with Russia that are favored by most of the country's opposition parties

11:02 PM on Friday, June 5

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers

11:01 PM on Friday, June 5

The Cockroach Janata Party, a social media movement in India, faces a major test as its founder leads a demonstration in New Delhi

7:12 PM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal food aid program

6:51 PM on Friday, June 5

Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state

6:38 PM on Friday, June 5

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has advanced to the November ballot after facing a reelection challenge from a younger Democrat

6:25 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high

6:25 PM on Friday, June 5

6:09 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump is keeping open the possibility of speaking directly with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te— even after Beijing has publicly urged him not to

5:35 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center

5:06 PM on Friday, June 5

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel

3:31 PM on Friday, June 5

7:19 AM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law

11:01 PM on Thursday, June 4

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, insists voters will support him despite controversies about his past